Toon Claes <toon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > I recently learned about rewriting URLs. Pretty cool feature. Learned > about it here: > https://jonhnnyweslley.net/blog/how-to-rewrite-git-urls-to-clone-faster-and-push-safer/ > > But I've been doing some testing, and this feature does not seem to work > for git submodules. Is it like that by design, so are there technical or > practical limitation why we would not like to have this feature on > submodules too? Wouldn't these submodules have their own .git/config where you can define the rewrite rules? It depends on why you use the rewriting rules but some common reasons why you rewrite URL A to URL B would apply regardless of which project hosted at A you are accessing, namely, performance and convenience. And in such a case, you do not necessarily want to have the rewrite config in the per-repository configuration file of the top-level superproject. If you define them instead in $HOME/.gitconfig, that would apply equally to all repositories you would access.
